A retired schoolteacher, she had spent the last few months of her life in Dallas after she received a cancer diagnosis and moved from Bethany, Okla.

Her funeral will be Wednesday at Mercer-Adams Funeral Service in Bethany, and she will be buried at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City.

Born in Abernathy, near Lubbock, in 1932, she graduated from high school in Borger, near Amarillo, in 1949.

After graduating from Frank Phillips College in Borger in 1951, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany and a master’s of education degree from Minnesota State University in 1973.

For 40 years, she was a public school teacher in Texas, New Mexico, New York and Oklahoma before she retired in 1993.

In 1953, she married Elden Rawlings, and they had two sons, Mr. Rawlings and Stephen Mark Rawlings, now deceased. In 1993, she wed Ray Moore.

She was a lifelong member of the Church of the Nazarene, for which she taught Sunday school, served as a youth leader and participated in senior ministries.

Besides Mr. Rawlings, her survivors include three stepchildren, four grandchildren and one step-granddaughter.

Memorials may be made to The Bridge homeless shelter, P.O. Box 710100, Dallas, Texas 75371-0100, or online at bridge northtexas.org.

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